Folding table.



No. 633,762 Ratented Sept. 26, I899.

I c. F. KADE.

FOLDING TABLE. (Application filed Feb. 17, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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"CHARLES F. KADE, OF SI-IEBOYGAN, W'ISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO KATHARINE FRANCIS VINTER AND ISABELLA FRANCIS KADE, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,762, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed February 17, 1899. Serial No. 705,788. (No model.)

To all whom it may cancer-n.- \Vhen the table is collapsed, all of its legs Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. KADE, a are parallel with the under side of top A, citizen of the United States, and a resident close against the same, The collapsed table of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan being stood upon its legs and its top lifted,

and State of Wisconsin, have invented certhere will be tension of spring G exertive to tain new and useful Improvements in Folddraw the upper ends of legs D from the posiing Tables; and I do hereby declare that the tion shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 1, following is a full, clear, and exact descripthe ends 0 of brace E moving along in the tion thereof. cleat-recesses b, with which they are engaged,

10 My invention has for its object to provide and said legs being then crossed with the legs simple, strong, and economical folding tables 0 on the rod F the table is set up for use. devoid of hinges and very compact when col- To collapse the table, the legs D are caused lapsed. to come parallel with the ones 0, and inci- Therefore said invention consists in certain dental to this operation there will be tension 15 peculiarities of construction and combination on the part of spring G to swing the top of of parts hereinafter set forth with reference said table parallel to all of said legs, it being to the accompanying drawings and subseunderstood that while said spring has no tenquently claimed. sion except when the table is being set up or Figure 1 of the drawings represents a seccollapsed it acts as a resistance against auto- 2b tional view of one of my improved folding tainatic movement on the part of the top and bles set up for use, and Fig. 2 a plan view of legs, or, in other words, it operates to keep the the table collapsed. table set up or collapsed, as the case may be.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A rep- The disposition of the cleats and legs is resents the top of the aforesaid table, having such that said legs are out of the way of the 2 5 its under side provided with a pair ofparallel knees of persons seated at the table, and the 7 cleats B, arranged at a predetermined dissetting up and collapsing of the latter may tance apart, and each of these cleats has an be easily effected without danger to the hands inner side longitudinal recess 1), rounded at of the operator. its ends. A pair of legs 0 have their upper While I have shown a preferred construc- 30 ends in pivotal connection with the cleats B, tion and arrangement of parts, the details the pivots being preferably screws 0, having of the same may be somewhat varied without their heads concealed within the cleat-redeparture from my invention. cesses at terminals of the same. Another Having thus described myinvention,what pair of legsD have their upper ends connected I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 5 by a crossbrace' E, and rounded ends cl of Patent, isthis brace projecting outside of the latter 1. A folding table comprising a top prolegs engage the cleat-recesses. vided with a pair of parallel under side cleats The design of the top and legs is immatehaving longitudinal recesses, a pair of legs rial and may be indefinitely varied. Interhaving their upper ends in pivotal connection 0 mediate of their extremities the legs in each with the cleats, another pair of legs provided pair are loose on a rod F headed at its ends with upper end projections engaging the in the outer legs, and spacing-sleeves e f are cleat-recesses, a rod having loose engagement arranged on the rod in the intervals between with all the legs, intermediate of their exlegs. tremities, a cross-piece above the rod between 5 Fast to the middle of across-piece or round those of the legs having the aforesaid projec- 9 5 9, connecting the legs D above rod F, is one tions, and a spiral spring connecting the taend of a spiral spring G, the other end of this ble-top with said cross-piece. spring being made fast to the under side of 2. A folding table comprising a top prothe table-top on a line midway of the cleats vided with a pair of parallel under side cleats 5o 13, above specified. having longitudinal recesses, a pair of legs 10o vided with a pair of parallel under side cleats having longitudinal recesses, two pairs of legs on a common pivot intermediate of their extremities, pivots connecting the upper ends of one pair of legs with the cleats, projections on the other pair of legs engaging the cleatrecesses, and a spiral spring in connection with the table-top and latter pair of legs.

4. A folding table comprising a top provided with a pair of under side cleats, a pair of legs having their upper ends in sliding pivotal connection with the cleats, another pair of legs in pivotal connection with the ones aforesaid, fixed pivots for the upper ends of the second pair' of legs, and a spiral spring connecting the table-top with a cross-piece between the first pair of legs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Sheboygan, in

the county of Sheboygan and State of Wiscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

. CHARLES F. KADE. 'lVitnesses:

PETER J. PETERSON, FRED I-I. POETLING. 

